pH balance

Just like you and I need to take in oxygen and ingest food to survive, your cells also need to resperate and require nutrients from the food you eat to endure. Normal cellular respiration is a metabolic process that takes place mostly in the Mitochondria. The mitochondria are the powerhouses or “furnaces” of the cell, where energy is produced, using ATP (adenosine triphosphate) as its currency.  ATP...

A fairly large percentage of the diets and lifestyles in industrialized nations, like the US in particular, tend to be acidogenic. This means a typical diet is high in acid forming animal protein, refined grains, sugar, and iodized table salt, low in alkaline forming fruits and vegetables, and lifestyles high in multitasking stress. These habits lead to latent or low-grade chronic metabolic acidosis,...

Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel Prizes, stated, "You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment, to a mineral deficiency." While this may be an oversimplification of the cause of disease, it is a considerable underlying factor at the very least, just like both pH imbalances and inflammation in the body which go hand and hand. The difference is that pH encompasses everything with...

There are MANY factors involved that steer people’s bodies to move towards the acidic side. Unfortunately, in this day and age, the human body is exposed to a vast array of extremely high levels of environmental toxins, and that is not an exaggeration. People’s diets are full of nutrient deficient, poor quality, toxin laden, highly oxidized fats, and high sugar foods. Most lack consistent proper...

By now everyone has at least seen the term “free radical” mentioned in an article or overheard some advertiser trying to sell you a supplement that neutralizes these free radicals responsible for the chronic inflammatory pain and destruction that ages you much faster! By definition free radicals are atoms or molecules that have unpaired electrons, which destabilizes them, making them highly reactive....

The old axiom “we dig our graves with our teeth” couldn’t be further from the truth! The modern western diet differs tremendously from that of our ancestors. Following the industrial revolution and through the use of new agricultural techniques, the foods consumed in the average everyday diet in countries like Western Europe, the U.S., and some other industrialized nations are poor in quality...

In the present era, high levels of toxins are prevalent in most edibles. Many toxic substances are found in most conventionally grown fruits, vegetables, with even higher levels in conventional meat and commercial dairy. Processed foods of CONVENIENCE are even far worse.  Besides the pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, GMO’s and oxidized vegetable oils, these foods are loaded with dyes, preservatives,...

A sedentary lifestyle can be defined as a lifestyle represented by a low level of physical activity. Over the course of the years, industrialization and technological advances have had a noticeably negative influence on people’s activity levels. Nowadays, the survival prerequisites that primitive men experienced are not required in most cases, and a more sedentary lifestyle is part of the norm.  Just...

The management of physical, chemical, and emotional stress is of vital importance for keeping pH levels in check, and thus, overall health! Stress is a normal reaction of the body that alerts you to danger. Like when your neighbor’s aggressive pit bull escapes from their yard and charges in your direction. This is a normal innate necessary response, that allows you to run like heck and jump the...

In today’s heavily industrialized world toxins are unavoidable. Every day you are being bombarded by tens of thousands of toxic chemicals, in your homes, jobs, the food you eat, the water you drink and bathe in, and even the air you breathe. Here are a few startling statistics: Up to 100,000 chemicals have been introduced into the environment since the 1940s The environment is flooded with...